When considering which library or framework to use to create a web application making use of Akka Streams, there are many things to choose from, Play Framework, Apache Camel, or Akka HTTP among others. For this chapter, we’ll focus on using Akka HTTP. The Akka HTTP server is implemented on top of Akka Streams and makes heavy use of it.
Akka HTTP has been driven with a clear focus on providing tools for building integration layers rather than application cores. As such it regards itself as a suite of libraries rather than a framework.
Akka HTTP takes an unopinionated ...
